[Native name in Philippines.] A bivalve mollusk, of great size, the Giant Clam (Tridacna gigas) of the Indian and China seas.
1885. Balfour, Cyclop. India (ed. 3), s.v. Kima, The shells of the taclobo, or gigantic Philippine oyster, are used as fonts in the churches of that group.
1885. Encycl. Brit., XVIII. 750/2. The ‘taclobo’ shell sometimes weighs 200 lb., and is used for baptismal fonts.
